The reconstruction of Manchester United is a long-term project, says Ole Gunnar Solskjær | Soccer

Ole Gunnar Solskjær has ruled out the possibility that Manchester United will name half a dozen new players this summer, although the club needs to be rebuilt to face Manchester City and Liverpool.

United manager's franchise over the magnitude of the upcoming task and the rich defeat against Barcelona in the middle of the week has suggested that there may be an end to the match at Old Trafford in the short season , with the replacement of almost half of the players. "We are planning to be in the top four of the Champions League next season and we want players who can keep us in the Champions League and propel us up the rankings," said Solskjær. "But we know that there will be no quick fix. We must proceed step by step.

"There will be new players coming in during the summer, but I do not think we can expect six.In any case, I do not think the officials you ask would be in favor of this amount of change, we want to rebuild, but it will have to be progressive, on some windows. "

Although few people disagree with the logic of this policy, the problem for United is time. They have lost five of their last seven games to become more familiar with reality than they were during the intoxicating days of the Solskjær administration. They gave themselves a better chance of being in the top four than Jose-Mourinho might have-but they will still need 10 points or more in their last five games to do so.

It's a lot for a very lucky team to take all three points against West Ham in their last league game. And while Solskjær has focused on football in the Champions League, he has now arrived at Truth Week. Beginning with a difficult visit to Goodison on Sunday, United will face Manchester City, then Chelsea in the coming week. At the end of this meeting, the possibility of an arrival among the top four will either be considered or ruled out. Realistically, United should consider taking six points in the next three games to give themselves a chance in the second round. Anything other than a maximum return against Everton will be a disappointment.

Solskjær is already talking about next season, insisting that he can not wait to get an adequate pre-season to reinforce his declared intention of turning United into the most hard-working team in the league. "We have to be the best, and it does not happen overnight," he said. United fans may be a little worried about this, because what the match in Barcelona seemed to prove is that some new signatures are both required and late.

If ambition to make United the equivalent of James Brown in the Premier League is a laudable ambition, it will probably not be enough to narrow the gap on Liverpool and City if these two clubs continue to buy 75 million defenders and three defenders at a time. All around Solskjær, it seems that Mourinho had the impression, more than six months ago, that if United is not in the top four this time, there is no guarantee that the same thing will not happen again next season.

Solskjær said it has summer transfer goals, but United has said it wants to appoint a technical director before next season, and that for a club whose recruitment policy has been hotly criticized in recent years, be clarified first.

Naturally, the manager looks for the bright side of things. "We may still be sixth but the last 16 or 17 games have shown that we have the players to be better than that," he said. "I think only City got a better average in terms of points since I arrived.

"When I was given this post, it was clear that we had to send Manchester United's DNA back to the club and the team. It does not mean that I want to live in the past. It would be naïve to tell players to do the same things as when we were playing. But I want to create a culture in which we all believe.

"When I played, the manager trusted us and we took responsibility for our own career. If someone came out of bounds, he would not stay long here. That's how it should be in a club like this. "